Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to touse
Participle: touseeed
Gerund: touseing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | touse |
| you | touse |
| he;she;it | touses |
| we | touse |
| you | touse |
| they | touse |
Perfect
| I | have touseeed |
| you | have touseeed |
| he;she;it | has touseeed |
| we | have touseeed |
| you | have touseeed |
| they | have touseeed |
Past
| I | touseeed |
| you | touseeed |
| he;she;it | touseeed |
| we | touseeed |
| you | touseeed |
| they | touseeed |
Pluperfect
| I | had touseeed |
| you | had touseeed |
| he;she;it | had touseeed |
| we | had touseeed |
| you | had touseeed |
| they | had touseeed |
Future
| I | will touse |
| you | will touse |
| he;she;it | will touse |
| we | will touse |
| you | will touse |
| they | will touse |
Future Perfect
| I | will have touseeed |
| you | will have touseeed |
| he;she;it | will have touseeed |
| we | will have touseeed |
| you | will have touseeed |
| they | will have touseeed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | touse |
| you | touse |
| he;she;it | touse |
| we | touse |
| you | touse |
| they | touse |
Perfect
| I | have touseeed |
| you | have touseeed |
| he;she;it | have touseeed |
| we | have touseeed |
| you | have touseeed |
| they | have touseeed |
Imperfect
| I | touseeed |
| you | touseeed |
| he;she;it | touseeed |
| we | touseeed |
| you | touseeed |
| they | touseeed |
Pluperfect
| I | had touseeed |
| you | had touseeed |
| he;she;it | had touseeed |
| we | had touseeed |
| you | had touseeed |
| they | had touseeed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would touse |
| you | would touse |
| he;she;it | would touse |
| we | would touse |
| you | would touse |
| they | would touse |
Perfect
| I | would have touseeed |
| you | would have touseeed |
| he;she;it | would have touseeed |
| we | would have touseeed |
| you | would have touseeed |
| they | would have touseeed |
Imperative
| you | touse |
| we | Let's touse |
| you | touse |
Verbs conjugated like 'touse'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'touse'
bouse,
douse,
house,
louse,
mouse,
ouse,
rouse,
souse,
tose,
tousel,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English tousen, tusen, from Old English *tūsian, from Proto-West Germanic *tūsōn. Cognate with German zausen (“to tousle”). Related also to English tease and toase.
2. (a noisy disturbance): Compare typologically Russian раздра́й (razdráj) (<… драть (dratʹ)). See: German, old spelling '
zausen'.
Verbs referencing "touse"
Esperanto
taŭzi.
Sample Sentences
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His tongue troules like a Mill-clack: a towzes the Lady ſiſters, as a tumbling Dog does young Rabets; […] [c. 1635–1636 (date written), Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], The Fancies, Chast and Noble: […], London: […] E[lizabeth] P[urslowe] for Henry Seile, […], published 1638, →OCLC, Act III, page 39:]
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How did he like it when the live creatures
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Tickled and toused and browsed him all over,
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And worm, slug, eft, with serious features
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Came in, each one, for his right of trover? [1844, Robert Browning, "Garden Fancies," II. Sibrandus Schafnaburgennis]